Qbot — Office (OOXML) / .XLSX malware analysis

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e9a22839f5b7612…

MALICIOUS

Office (OOXML) / .XLSX

23.6 KB Created: 2006-09-16 00:00:00 UTC Authoring application: Microsoft Excel 14.0300
MD5: cb06b93e918078eab232ebfd26f2efb1 SHA-1: 204028d580cc330228b776102b78996d0fd5f32c SHA-256: 8e9a22839f5b761216d8b723c96567f0aaa3d97b0a7b7a149375d2d916e925f2
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

Qbot · confidence 95%

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The file was detected by ClamAV as 'Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0', strongly indicating it functions as a dropper for the Qbot malware family. As an Excel macro-enabled document, it likely uses embedded VBA to download and execute a secondary payload, a common technique for Qbot distribution.

Heuristics 1

  • ClamAV: Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Xls.Dropper.QbotDocu12020-9818439-0